AP FILE PHOTOSupporters of a recall effort against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continue to sing a union solidarity song outside the State Capitol Building after polling results begin show a victory for Walker in statewide recall elections June 5, 2012.

On Tuesday, voters in the Dairy State overwhelmingly rejected a
union-led effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker, a tough Republican who
angered Big Labor by passing a law restricting collective bargaining
privileges for out-of control public sector unions.

The
election was a huge victory for people who believe that the public
interest must always take precedent over self-serving special interests.

Steve Gunn

Big Labor leaders wanted voters to believe that Walker restricted
collective bargaining just to "break the unions" and score a long-term
political victory for his party. In fact he acted to end an ugly cycle
of collective bargaining abuse that was bankrupting local governments in
Wisconsin.

Municipal governments and public schools had been
struggling for several years to meet their responsibilities with
shrinking resources. One problem was that their employee unions kept
ignoring economic conditions and demanding more and more at the
bargaining table, even as the recession dawned and government revenues
slowed to a trickle.

Republicans
'deliberately' destroyed America with their 5/4 US Supreme Court
corruption lie that corporations are people, and now we have secret
foreign corporations and secret domestic terrorist buying America's
elections.

The headline should have read, "SPECIAL INTERESTS ALWAYS BEAT OUT PUBLIC
INTERESTS'. The obscene amounts of dollar$ brought into the Wisconsin
theater were presented and gifted by the super wealthy who have no
connection with the state, other than to obliterate the middle class
citizens in their zany war to destroy the country. These big money
slingers represent the biggest collection of special interests that
exists to hijack the country, the economy, the government and the
political process, as they have.

Blah, blah, blah. Republicans outspent democrats, really? Do the math (as the president is so fond of saying.) According to ABC News: Almost half of the $62 million spent so far has come from Walker. (Half? I thought it was 7-1?) Campaign
finance reports show that the embattled governor has spent $29 million
on the race. (Out of this David Koch gave $1 million for his
influence.) Democratic candidates have spent around $4 million,
with Barrett accounting for about $2.9 million of that total. The
remaining money has come from outside spending groups, about $21.5
million from the groups that have reported their spending. The $21.5 Million Barrett received came from out of state labor unions. That's $21.5 Million in influence. Special interests?

Did special interests determine the outcome of the Wisconsin election? Or did the public interest win?